Notes from Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom
Shift 1: Rethinking How Reading Comprehension Begins
Reading comprehension does not work without these two things.
Misunderstanding: If children have strong oral language, they have most of what they need to learn to read.
The Simple View of Reading, commonly referred to as SVR provides the framework for reading comprehension.
Word Reading x Listening Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
Word Reading = Decoding/Automatic word recognition
Listening Comprehension = Language comprehension
No amount of word recognition skill will compensate for the limitations of a child’s listening comprehension.
And if a child can’t figure out the print -or decode it- they won’t comprehend it. (You can’t comprehend what you can’t read)
